DM, DMB et al, Interesting, talking of dissertations I used the technological threat subject (an analogy of when a flint axe was the height of technology) in an essay during my dissertation year.
The downside of all technology is scary - the point is always to understand people and their motives in using a technology - which may push the boundaries of the previously possible - and "encourage" the upsides. In that sense AI is scary - though I disagree with the "they've got nowhere" conclusion. They've got nowhere with the physical automation - a total red-herring anyway (we all have old-tech views of automation in mind) - but cybernetics has made great inroads into the physics of intelligence (and life) IMHO. Timescales aside, I find Kurzweil's predictions hype. What it does show is that evolution is needed to explain life and intellgence, and that complex adaptive systems are needed to achieve it. Oh look, we are one. Ian On 6/9/07, David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This is the thing about our time, you know. Osama Bin Laden is a medieval > > man with a satellite phone and a lap top. > > > DM: Yes, so who is the threat, Osama or the technology we in the west have > made too available? Are we missing the correct way to reduce the terror > threat? > Not too scared of AI yet though, they have got nowhere. > > > moq_discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
